A man walks through a homeless encampment on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. Efforts to move California's large homeless population into isolated quarters to slow the spread of the coronavirus are still sluggish despite a $150 million cash infusion by the governor and a crisis that public health experts say needs to be curbed now. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
March 26, 2020
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March 26, 2020 10:07 a.m.
Few sheltered as California aims to help homeless amid virus
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homeless outreach workers are passing out hand sanitizer, checking temperatures and pleading with people not to crowd together. But a week after California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged thousands of hotel rooms to help the homeless survive the coronavirus pandemic, most of those rooms sit empty.